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[Victoria J]

On the subject of best cat toys ever

When Karma catches up with me I will need to answer to charges of cruelty to mice because apparently the best cat toy ever is a mouse in a cardboard tube in a bath.

I had a bit of a mouse problem at my old address. I suspect it may have started with the cat - the first one seemed to be the one she brought from outside and let go on my bed as I slept. The first one she killed damaged our relationship, the look she gave me when I took it away ! Apparently she had no idea I was the kind of person who would steal a mouse (this from the cat who fainted when she discovered it was possible to have a tupperware container that didn't contain cat sweets). Then she started catching them and putting them in the bath. She could then play with them. Some died, some escaped.

If I found them I'd put them in a box and take them a long way away to let them go.

In the middle of the night I would just try and provide them with shelter until the morning.

One night the only thing I could find was a toilet paper cardboard tube. The next morning I went into the bathroom and she demonstrated. She had obviously been practicing. She flicked the tube right down the bath and then leapt as the poor mouse stuck his head out, wapped the tube the other way...

I was so torn between how wonderfully happy she was, and feeling sorry for the mouse.

Outside of that the best cat toy ever is this :

Dr Squid Monster

I ordered her one for Christmas last year. She found the parcel before I did, smelling the catnip. Every cat I've seen (4) has loved it - it's really large for a cat toy and they grab it and bite it while kicking with the back legs. Plus it's some serious cat nip apparently.

Also - it's called Dr Squid Monster !

I want to order her a new one.

Or putting them in her shoes . . . Or her sewing basket . . . Or her purse . . .

Or in her hair, when she's sleeping . . .

My father once found a mouse's bottom in his shoe.

He believed it to be the cat equivalent of The Godfather.

Victoria J

[Sapphire Silk]

I'm surprised you still have mice problems with such a good mouser of a cat. Usually they hit the high road when there's a cat around.

I had mice . . . for awhile. Woke up in the middle of the night hearing Jasmine (the cat in my icon) crying. Thinking something was wrong, I went to find her in the living room. She looked up at me, then looked down at something on the floor. The lights were out so I couldn't see too well. I put my hand down and felt something warm.

Ick! Dead mouse. Jasmine looks up at me with this expression that said: "Make it move, Mommy!" She was upset that her new toy wouldn't play anymore.

*sigh*

Haven't had a mouse problem since.

[Andara Bledin]

We had mice when we first moved in. We had put a box of ramen packets under the kitchen sink, and a month later went to grab them and found an empty box with wrapper bits in it.

Moved the litter box under the sink and that took care of that little problem.

^-.-^

[Sonoma]

I just give my cat an empty box. I get my packages and he gets amused for hours. Amazon has something for everyone.

Casey got a $50 drinking fountain for his birthday, and guess what he likes best about our delivery from that day....the Amazon box it came in.

Dorky cat.

[superhotelworker]

*chokes on coffee at the last story, still giggling maniacally* My boyfriend thinks I've lost it. But gods Grave, you've got some realllllllll winners.
And um..
Greatoral.net & HardPorn.com? Ohmygawd.

By the way, the Dr. Seuss line, had my boyfriend breaking rule 1. :P

[LadyAndreca]

I would LOVE to see what my cats do with a mouse. The apartment complex is very diligent about vermin, though, so I've seen spiders and the occasional house centepede, but never an ant, roach, or mouse. But my cats are HILAROUS with spiders - they take turns stepping on them to see which way they run. And flies, they'll chase around the house for HOURS trying to climb windows to catch. So I think something like a mouse would very quickly become a new toy.

[depechemodefan]

Me: “Hmm, alright I only have that item in blue.”
SC: “Oh. Do you have it in black?”

That reminds me so much about my job

me: ok, no Huston Publc library has that book.
idiot: what about the Smith branch?

or

Me: the only library open till 8 is the downtown library
idiot 2: what about the Park Place branch?

I did like the porn story. I think a government official would be on his ass faster than our patrons (at a free festival downtown where they get free stuff too) if he tried to get any porn into SA.

My evil kitteh likes playing with corks and empty toliet paper rolls. Also love playing with the toliet paper rolls, and handing us confetti. I guess I could wipe my butt with the longer pieces of toliet-paper confetti.